Hypothesis testing in evolutionary inference.

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The comparative method, amongst other things, searches for correlations between evolutionary variables. These can be used to test null hypotheses. Here I consider, in the context of binary variables, the bases of such tests. I examine grounds upon which evolutionary traits and events can be regarded as statistically independent of each other. I argue that no description of observations as independent or...

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